It's beginning to look a lot like...

Yep, it's that time of year. This morning my car door was frozen shut and window scraping was inevitable. It's the time when one day it's 48 and sunny and the next day they're calling for snow! On Halloween night we never knew if we'd be running around freezing our butts off or running around on a seemingly warm night - gotta love it!

Anniversary on the Farm

Dave and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary last Thursday by going on a field trip with Tyler's class to a local farm. It was a crisp Fall day and we enjoyed a hay ride, some story telling, pumpkin picking and a trip through the corn maze. Tyler's favorite part of the trip was the corn maze (we're suprised he wasn't scared) and he ended up getting lost while we were in it. Dave and I thought the one path had no where for him to go but around in a circle and apparently we were wrong. After a major panic attack from me and Dave running though the maze asking people if they saw "a kid in a Penn State hoodie" we found him running around, smiling and laughing, not missing us one bit! He's not allowed in another corn maze until he's 18!

Friday night, Aunt Amy and Uncle Ryan watched Tyler and Dave and I got to go out to dinner for our anniversary. We had a nice long dinner and enjoyed our time out - thanks Guys! I continued the fun last night by getting to hang out with my friends Karyn and Shannon, who I've been friends with since Kindergarden, and enjoyed a night out with the girls. And today it's Smokin Sunday! Dave and Ben started smokin the meat at 8am along with drinking some bloody Mary's - yummy dinner tonight!





This is Harley, the biggest pig we've ever seen!


Who says that coozies are only for beer. The guys always make sure to take care of Tyler :)

Fall hiking and camping

This past weekend, we went to Rickett’s Glen to do some hiking and get in some last of the season camping before it starts getting super cold. It was also a bday celebration of Fall babies and I think there were 5 of them (counting back 9 months we’re right in the heart of Winter, which I think can explain all of these Fall babies!). We’ve been going to Rickett’s Glen since we were kids and I was really excited to take Tyler and let him run around, but the weather wasn’t the best so we decided to leave him with Grammy and Pop-Pop (and Alex stayed behind with Tyler too). So, Jill, Kevin, Sydney and I went and did a nice 4 mile hike along the water falls (Dave went earlier that morning to do a longer hike with some other friends). It was beautiful, even though it was damp and things were a little soggy from the rain we’ve been having. Sydney was a trooper and hiked pretty much the entire way and we had a great fall afternoon. That evening a bunch of us we camped in some pretty chilly weather (I’m thinking it was high 30’s low 40’s at night) and had a really fun last camp for the season!







On a not-so-fun note, I spent Sunday evening in Triage again for the same issues that I was having a few weeks ago. Everything looked awesome with the baby, but the friable cervix is to blame again. :( We have no clue if this will continue throughout the rest of my pregnancy, but they say pregnancy is the culprit as to why it’s happening (it’s nothing that I’m doing like lifting or over exerting myself, which is hard to avoid anyway with a toddler running around). They’ve reassured me this is “normal” in the pregnancy world and everything is going to be just fine so I just have to go with what they tell me and keep on keeping on :) We’re half way there, I’m feeling great, the little dude is starting to let me know he’s in there with his kicks and jabs and we’re counting down the days until we could see his sweet face! I know it may sound crazy to some, but I really like being pregnant. Here’s a look at the bump at 20 weeks 4 days :)


We were over our friends Shannon and Raf's house the other day and Tyler was totally loving being in the crate with their dog Arthur. Arthur was a very good sport and didn't mind sharing the crate with him. This might come in handy when I need to corral him once the new baby is born...I might have to make a trip to the pet store ;)



Arthur is getting pretty big...I'm not sure if they'll both fit next time we visit!


Shan sent me this picture of when he was a little smaller and for a split second it made me think we totally need a dog! So cute! Then I came back to reality and realized we need to see if we can handle 2 kids first. We might be ready for a dog when they go to college :)

It's a...

Healthy and active little boy! We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning and everything looked great! Our little guy was moving around like crazy and before the ultrasound tech told us what we were having I already knew because He was flashing his parts all over the place lol! Big brother was right in predicting this one and we're so thankful that we have a healthy baby brewin!

A birthday, some visitors and more pumpkins!

Last Thursday Dave turned the big 32! And last Thursday Ryan, Melissa and their son Luke came to visit for a few days! They’re friends from California and they were visiting the East Coast for the week and were nice enough to fit us in to their trip! We miss hanging out with Ryan and Melissa so much and have not seen them in 2 years (when we left them 2 years ago I was right around 20 weeks pregnant just like I am now - it probably seems as though I'm perpetually pregnant). It was so great getting to meet their little guy and to catch up with them. They came bearing a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for Dave (thanks guys...super yummy!) and we pretty much just hung out, walked around Chestnut Hill on a great Fall day, made a great Surf and Turf dinner requested by Dad for his birthday, let the little guys play in the yard and we introduced them to Polish horseshoes (and Melissa got to take back to CA her first Polish horseshoes victory – sorry Ryan!). We were also super excited that Tyler and Luke could play together, but it turns out our sweet little boy decided he wasn’t really up to sharing his toys - ugh! So they played and had some spats (which provided some giggles for the adults) and on the morning they were leaving Tyler finally decided that he’d warm up to sharing a bit and wanted to hold Luke’s hand and show him his toys…it was very cute. We had a great visit with them and we’re hoping that next year we can get out to CA to visit again!

The first haircut

We did it! It really was turning in to a mullet :)

Tyler's first haircut was at Ralph's Barber Shop in Glenside. It's an authentic barber shop and overall he was a really good boy and sat well for it. He sat on my lap and wouldn't let them put the cape around him, but as soon as he got a lollipop he forgot about everything else that was happening and the haircut was a breeze! He's such a handsome boy!











In other news, our first blog book arrived! All 200 pages of it and it's so awesome!



Dave was in Vermont from Thurs to Sunday last week for an overnight mountain bike race, but the race ended up getting cancelled because of the weather. He got in some good rides anyway and will be doing the race next year. I'm hoping that next year all of us can go since Vermont is one of our favorite states. While he was gone, Tyler and I were pretty busy.

We had Mackenzie's first birthday party on Saturday and it was lots of fun! I got to hang out with some girlfriends and Tyler go to run around with the other kids and drive Gavin's jeep around the yard. I think we know what's on the birthday list for this year. Here's the cutie pie digging in to her cake!


When we got home, Aunt Jill, Uncle Kevin and the girls were at our house and Aunt Jill was making us an awesome Mexican food dinner (best sister ever!). So, we got to have a great dinner while the kids had their own dinner and a movie - so cute!



And we all got a great breakfast from Aunt Jill too - I was spoiled this weekend!


We finished off the weekend by running around a pumpkin patch and getting some mums for the yard. Fall is here and I love it! We didn't get any pumpkins though since we wanted to wait for Dad to help pick them out :)